Not a Mosquito, after all!
Have you ever wondered what the deadliest animal on Earth is? If you think it could be snakes or stingray or comodo dragons, you are...
Living in a fool’s paradise: The anatomy of doom
Few weeks back I returned home to the whimsical December chillness of South Bengal and was immediately absorbed into anxious addas centered around the recent...
WILD UNCULTIVATED EDIBLE PLANTS OF INDIA
Part 4 (......after part 3) Bauhinia vahlii Wight & Arn. Family: Leguminaceae This plant is a crawling member of the upright and prodigious Gulmohar family...
Glimpses Of Nature And Culture
Honeytrap by Rhododendrons In 67 B.C.E, at Trabzon near Black Sea famous general, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) and his Roman army faced an...
Linguistic and Biological Diversity: Patterns of Co-occurrence and Opportunities for Coordinated Conservation
Researchers from a range of disciplines frequently remind us of the enormous challenges that Earth will face in the coming decades. Climate change, unprecedented levels...
Junipers of Ziarat – a living heritage for the humanity
Far from the Arabian sea, the arid rugged terrain of west Pakistan and adjoining Afghanistan poses a challenge for human being to make a living...
Small edible fishes of eastern India: consequences of their declining diversity
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish………..big fish big fish…..but no small fish! Yes, a key portion of small fish has already eluded our...
WILD UNCULTIVATED EDIBLE PLANTS OF INDIA
Part 3 (......after part 2) Debregeasia longifolia (Burm.f.) Wedd. Family: Urticaceae A shrubby plant commonly known as ‘wild rhea’ and is one of the widely...
Glimpses Of Nature And Culture
Climate worries turtle too…. “Climate change”…….we are really feeling it now. Be it tropical rainforest, temperate boreal forest or arctic tundra, the sun is getting...
Food from the Paataal Loke – fishing apple snail, field rats and more in the Sickle Economy
North Bihar is a flood-prone region and every village and Mohalla in this region is either bisected by small and big rivers flowing from the...